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Visualizing the impact of weather on traffic
We’ve been looking into the impact that weather has on travel times using historical data from TrafficCast, specifically winter storms, like the one that hit the Atlanta area last month.The day started...
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Camille Teicheira joins Mapbox
Developer Camille Teicheira joins the Mapbox team in San Francisco! Camille is a recent graduate of Hackbright Academy, an expert in photoplethysmography, and an organizer and teacher at Maptime SF...
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Talking drones, vector tiles, and map design at OpenStreetMap conference
The State of the Map US schedule is out, and our team has some sweet sessions:Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap– Baptiste Tripard from Sensefly and Bobby Sudekum will present on how imagery from UAVs...
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Space Station Earth
I’m a big fan of science fiction and computer games, so I couldn’t resist making a space themed map this month. I crammed it full of bright lights and chrome like some of my favorite post-apocalyptic...
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Girls love maps
One of the most exciting things about the Code for America fellowship has been the ability to flex our skills and share the things we love. This past Monday, my fellow fellow Livien and I had the...
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Launching Mapbox Enterprise
Mapbox Enterprise provides high volume plans for massive traffic, big storage, and dedicated support. Basically it’s everything we do at Mapbox already, just tailored to your custom enterprise...
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Pinterest Soups Up with Marker Clustering
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of Pinterest and their push to build a completely custom map experience. They just rolled out a small update to their website that takes advantage of the excellent...
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Global Elevation Data on Satellite Imagery
The new vector based Mapbox Terrain layer we are designing lets us style and combine datasets in ways that were previously not possible. For example, we can now integrate contour lines with elevation...
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GeoDC Tomorrow! Github + Mapbox + Army
Come out to GeoDC tomorrow (Wednesday, March 5th), at Stetson’s. Beers at 7:00 pm, presentations kick off at 7:30 pm.Lightning talk lineup:Ben Balter, head of government relations @GitHub will show how...
View ArticlePlanes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space
This quick shot by Skybox’s SkySat-1 shows multiple planes landing at Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) airport in Beijing on December 30, 2013. You can easily see a large plane landing on...
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Hello Mapbox San Francisco!
On March 20, come celebrate the opening of Mapbox in San Francisco! RSVP here. We’ll get started at 6:30pm with a keg each of PBR & Anchor Steam, plus some local eats. We’ll go until we kick the...
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Edit OpenStreetMap Directly From Your Mapbox Map
You can now edit OpenStreetMap directly from your Mapbox Streets map with today’s roll out of improved info controls for Mapbox.js. If you’re using an OpenStreetMap-based layer like Mapbox Streets and...
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VSCO: brand considerations and map design
VSCO, makers of tools for creating beautiful photographs, launched a completely custom branded map to compliment their Grid search, forming an elegant, quiet backdrop behind their users'...
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We're at SXSW, probably eating BBQ
Hello Austin! Just landed with Garrett for a few days at SXSW. We are presenting tomorrow on “Beyond Dots on a Map: The Future of Mapping Tweets”, which is basically me showing off the awesome design...
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Amit Kapadia joins Mapbox
Image scientist Amit Kapadia joins the Mapbox team in San Francisco! Amit will be jumping in as an imagery specialist, working alongside Charlie, Bruno, Sean, and myself on the Satellite team....
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Better Developer Documentation
We shipped a new layout for our developer documentation.The layout provides focused left fixed navigation and better search. Let us know what else we could add to our documentation to make Mapbox even...
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Satellite Imagery Directly → Mapbox
Skybox is building direct Mapbox integration into their new BusBoy platform.This means that any imagery ordered from Skybox can be turned into MBTiles— a super compressed tile transport package — and...
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Sophie Herrman joins Mapbox
Developer Sophie Herrman joins Mapbox in Washington, D.C.! Sophie is joining me on our growing labs team, doing crazy design, building experimental apps, and applying her skills to our outside...
View ArticleFlight MH370 Search from Space
All major satellite companies are tasking their satellites in the search for the missing flight MH370. Here are the footprints mapped from each major satellite provider over the last 6 days (since...
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APIs + heaps of satellite imagery: searching for flight MH370
Blackbridge, with their constellation of 5 satellites, just launched the new satellite imagery interface aiding the search for flight MH370. Their new app allow users to quickly dig through the large...
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